Stop using search engines and start using ai

I will when we have AI.

I use Brave Search (yeah from the browser) and it works pretty good. Their privacy policy seems fairly robust at least according to my understanding and they have their own index, so they don’t rely on Google or Bing, which allows them to filter out the SEO Spam rampant on other engines.

I guess there’s only one way to find out.

But what if I were to add more ‘and’

It would be extremely painful

The report includes data such as host name, kernel version, desktop component versions, detailed information about hardware and drivers involved, screen size and resolution information, network device MAC addresses, disk serial numbers, disk partition data, information about the number of running processes and installed packages, versions of basic packages such as systemd, gcc, bash and PipeWire.

That’s insane

Y-you’re not supposed to ask that!

But you pay more for what is essentially the same with a VPN. You have to buy a VPN subscription on top of your internet subscription, get less speed because your internet traffic is being routed through a different country and get no benefit to privacy. The only use case for a VPN is when you have to bypass georestrictions.